Timewatch

Season 24, Episode 10

Episode Title: Children of the Doomed Voyage

Air Date: 2005-11-18

Overview:

On 17 September 1940 a German U-boat attacked the evacuee ship SS Benares en route to Canada, killing 258 of the 401 on board, including 80 of 100 child passengers. Sixty-five years on, those still living recall how they escaped death by hypothermia and drowning. 3/4.